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19 hours ago, alan grice said:

Well i think the poster suggests Unswort wouldn’t have sued a Bar Girl that called him something he didn’t like.!.


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Maybe the bargirl wouldnt have 23 million followers. 

Elon literally said to 23 million people that Unsworth was a pedophile. 

There is no greater insult. And all male readers here are considered the same. You are male, you are in Thailand, then you are too, in Elon's mind. 

I hope Unsworth wins millions and hope he donates some of it to a good cause in Thailand

2 hours ago, Jason M said:

I have not jumped bail and I have not got any sentence, I havent even been i Norway for 4 years... What I know is that I have been called in to court as an offender next month. I will not  be there and I have choosen to not send a lawyer to be there or do any talking whatso ever on my behalf. This will be in total absentia of me, so I dont have any ide if they even can sentence me...? And for all that call me a bad criminal here, that is not what I am - I dont have any sentence and Im not guilty of any crime until proven otherwise. Thanks for the answers so far....

The decision not to attend was your own personal opinion on the best way to handle it, or have you asked advice from a lawyer?

If you haven,t I would reconsider, you could be making the situation worse. You need to know legally what your choices are and their probable outcomes are. 

Also you have 1m of ill gotten gains, see if a lawyer can negotiate with the bank to drop charges if you return the money. 

On 9/6/2019 at 12:52 PM, Thainess said:

This is a joke, obviously. They've actually put the ones that are the worst at the top. Italy is said to be almost the worst, but it has just about the best food culture and, in many places, the best climate in the world, as well as the world's best fashion and design, some of the best-looking women, and the best fast cars on the planet. This survey is either a joke, or they only interviewed morons.

This is so true. It makes it so frustrating that we are in an economical nightmare. So it,s a great place to visit, but the working and living it made extremely hard. 

Add better health care than in the Uk. Not the structures but the health checks. At an older age I wouldn.t trust the Uk, here they will definitely look after you no matter your age. However, I wouldn,t advise being alone in hospital. You need "family". 

On 9/6/2019 at 8:05 AM, Old Croc said:

I have trouble understanding how Italy is ranked second bottom, just below Nigeria.

Been expat in Italy for 38years. The country has everything going for it. But it's so widely mismanaged, it would be hard to pull us up now. Also we are now held ransom by Merkle, and her hench men Standard and Poors, Moodies. If we choose a government that doesnt suit  the EU, or approve regulations they don,t like, the spread goes through the roof and we are indebited even more. They have us by the short and curlies. 

There is no way out.  

10 hours ago, roberta said:

Thank you much.   I did that, and it shows "registration successful".  Good news, I guess, but I cannot log in because I have never received a password. I thought it would come by email, but nothing so far.  Now what...?

I woulf have thought that "registration successful" would also mean they have sent the email with username and password. Have you checked spam?

Only other thing maybe an incorrect email on their part or your part. But you must have got the first email from them for the email confirmation. 

15 hours ago, Stevemercer said:

 

Sometimes mistakes happen. A friend of mine was returning from Australia to Thailand a few months ago and Australian Customs seized his passport saying it had been tampered with (the page with personal details had been laminated many years ago, but he had not been stopped before in his many travels).

 

He had to get a new passport and returned to Thailand on a visa exempt which, of course, cancelled his current retirement multi-entry 12 month extension. He has tried in Australia to transfer the extension to the new passport, but the embassy would not do it because customs hadn't returned the old passport.

 

Needless to say he has to start the whole retirement extension process again. So far, the custom seizure has cost him about $5,000 Australian (100,000 Baht) in airfares, hotels, incidental costs etc.

 

I'm just saying that mistakes and oversights can happen even with a 20 year record of no problems. I, for one, am grateful to the OP for sharing the story so I can learn from his experiences.

 

If it had happened to me, I must admit I probably would have tried slipping the IO 3 thousand baht to see if that made a difference.

Sorry but if he self laminated his passport then it wasn,t the custom seizure that cost him 100,000 baht, but it was thinking he could self laminate a passport! 

11 hours ago, Caldera said:

This. I also wouldn't rule out that some well-known, long-term posters use a throwaway account to post about such an experience. Maybe they don't want it to be linked with their main account, but still want to get the story out. Who knows.

I agree. 

Also because there are a number of louts looking for a fight, hidden behind a keyboard. 

Never understood the warped enjoyment they seem to gain. Perhaps because they don,t actually have to answer, in person, for their gratuitious agressiveness.

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If you can,t stand your windows,

this is removable. When you find the way of cleaning them, take vinile off

15 minutes ago, donnacha said:

@Farangland Thanks for sharing your experience here.

I think the phrase "make the passport thicker" is beautiful and exactly echoes the culture around this stuff.

It would be very helpful if you could indicate how much thicker - did you have to give him the entire $700?

Exactly what I asked. 

Was he told how thick to make it? What dimensions did it have when it got accepted? 

What are the going " measurements"?

6 hours ago, 4675636b596f75 said:

It's interesting how some of you just don't get it.  

 

The window has 1mm clearance top and bottom.  Perhaps the clearance is slightly less.  The lip on the inside, is 1 inch high.  Someone needs some chamomile tea and a hug.

Hi, I,m in debt with you I believe as the Tm30 status check suggestion you gave worked and I now have my usermane and password, so thanks. 

As to the window, it,s only the 1mm (do you really mean 1mm or 1 cm?) lock having to pass the first vertical alluminium part of the frame? If so I would be tempted to use a long handled thin screw driver (maybe in a piece of cloth so it wont take the paint off) or large knife could be far better and slightly prise a distance so the frame and lock pass. 

Good luck!

2 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

That might well depend on what passport she last entered on.

Say she got the Thai passport in Thailand she would be able to leave. 

For the foreign passport (US? Can,t remember) can you get a first passport in a foreign country? If yes surely she could leave Thailand.

Or maybe not. ????????

5 hours ago, edwinchester said:

Went to our local Immigration Office just yesterday to ask for a username and password.

Informed that they do not allow homeowners to do a TM30 online, only hotels.

Do not allow postal reporting and not allowed to report to our local Police Station.

Wifey was thoroughly <deleted> off as she(we) now have an 80 km round trip every time she has to report my return from a trip away.

Easy reporting my hairy farang ass!

Did you go to ask as you did the online register and are waiting for  the username and password ? 

If so try the checking status, it may trick the system. The woman in imm may not have control of it, and it,ll issue it.  Worth a try. Costs nothing. 

Or, try the app. 

On 8/20/2019 at 1:12 PM, OKF said:

I am waiting for approval since 14.6.19!

See above post. Try checking status

13 hours ago, edwinchester said:

Wifey applied in May, I applied middle of July.....both of us still waiting for login details.

I got my username etc today, after two month wait. 

Another forum user advised me to do a status check, which I did and it could be coincidence but 2 days later got the long awaited email.

https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn24online/ .

Click register then gives you a window with check status option

Good luck

4 hours ago, OKF said:

I am waiting for approval since 14.6.19!

I,ve come in 2nd then with the 20.6.19

Tmrw I.m going to do a status check. Ggrrr

5 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Did you guys get an email conformation after you had done it? I didn't Im thinking it didn't go through maybe have to do it again

Email confirmation and that you have to wait for a username and password that will be sent. 

I,m waiting since end of May, Same as a neighbour, we did it both at roughly the same time. 

Bangkok

Sorry, maybe I.m wrong, but if you have a US passport come in on that. Can anyone correct me ..there should be no problem , as if you had no thai citizenship. 

If you used your thai passport then maybe you are right. 

I believe at a certain age the military obbligations are scrubbed.

Could be wrong...

14 minutes ago, 4675636b596f75 said:

https://www.cdg.co.th/website/en/about-cdg/affiliates-of-cdg/cdg-systems-ltd/

 

Perhaps you should contact the CEO of CDG.  https://www.cdg.co.th/website/en/about-2/

Handsome man eh?  His company designed this mess.

https://www.cdg.co.th/website/en/solutions/application-services/administration-database-management-analytics-solutions/

 

Maybe if everyone contacted CDG to let them know what a wonderful app they created, you might see some movement.  

 

Personally I think we should use whatsapp, that has the option of sending your location. 

Instead of imposing on friends, if staying at their place for blue books etc etc, it,s all in the hands of the expat. 

A single whatsapp to immigration with the location details, maybe even a photo of the room/condo/ house/ number. 

Soooo easy. 

Or

Set the whatsapp with all the documents sent by photo. After which by location button. Also you would have the little blue ticks as a receipt.